User Guide
DVD Xpress Page 60
DVD Xpress Page 61
8. Select the menu template and click Background Image or Background Music to add background
image and music. Click OK.
9. Click Create Chapter to automatically add chapters with a specic time interval.
10.Select the desired output format in Format. Select Customize to open the Video and Audio
Capture Property Settings dialog box where you can adjust the settings for your captured video.
11.Click Burner Settings to set the disc burner options and properties. See “The Output Options
dialog box” for more details.
12.Click Advanced Settings to adjust more capture options.
13.Locate the starting point of your video to capture then click Start Capture. Click Pause Capture to pause
the capturing process. Click Stop Capture to end the capturing process.
14.After successfully burning your disc, a dialog box appears from which you can select the next step after
the burning process.
• Return to Start page allows you to save the current project and begin a new one.
• Continue takes you back to the Finish page where you can burn another copy of your project or burn
a new disc with different settings.
• Close prompts you to save your work and to exit DVD MovieFactory.
Notes:
• Click Expand/Shrink preview window to enlarge the Preview Window and minimize the other options in
the Direct to Disc dialog box. This gives a larger view of your video. Click Expand/ Shrink preview window
again to return to the default Preview Window size and layout.
• For details on the capture options and settings, refer to “Capturing video”.
Glossary
Analog
A signal that continuously varies in frequency or quantity, rather than discrete units (1and 0) found in digital
devices. Information from an analog source must be converted to digital in order for a computer to interpret it.\
Aspect Ratio
The proportion of a picture’s width and height.
Burn
The process of writing or recording content to a CD or DVD.
Button
An object assigned (linked) to an attribute which, when clicked, performs a specic function. Buttons are
commonly used to play an assigned chapter or move to the next or previous one.
Capture Plug-ins
Programs included in DVD MovieFactory that allow your video camera to communicate with your computer.
Compression
The process of making a le smaller by removing redundant data. Nearly all digital video is compressed in
some way or another through a codec.
Device Control
A software driver that allows your computer to control video sources like the camcorder or VCR.
DV
Abbreviation for Digital Video, which is a very specic format of video. DV can be understood (played back,
recorded) by your camcorder and also by our computer if you have the proper hardware (capture card)
and software (DV codec).
Disc image les
Files that contain the entire content of a storage medium (e.g. CD-ROM).
Field order
The order in which a eld in interlaced video is displayed rst during playback. This can either be Lower
Field First or Upper Field First. A eld is one of the two half-frames in interlaced video. Field order is not
applicable for frame-based videos which are displayed with complete single frame pictures.
Introductory Video
The video clip that automatically plays when the disc is inserted into the player.
LPCM audio
Abbreviation for Linear PCM which is a high quality uncompressed audio format similar to CD audio,
but with higher sampling frequencies and quantization. Due to its high data retaste bandwidth for
video on a DVD video disc is lessened if LPCM audio is used.
Menu
A group of objects set against a background that allows a viewer to navigate through the
scenes or immediately proceed to a specic portion of the title.